Tag: dialogue

  • Excursion to Arvamusfestival in Paide

    Excursion to Arvamusfestival in Paide

    With participants of Youth Dialogue Lab we visited this year’s Opinion Festival / Arvamusfestival in Paide, in the heart of Estonia. For the participants, it was their first time attending the festival. This annual democracy festival sees over 200 public discussions take place, with more than 10,000 people visiting over the two-day event. Our group…

  • Reach for Change asked us about our journey so far

    Reach for Change asked us about our journey so far

    We have been a member of the Baltic Sea Impact Network for one and a half years. One of the network’s founders, Reach for Change, recently asked us how we have developed as an organisation. Below are the questions they asked us and our answers. Please describe briefly what your organisation does and how it…

  • The Importance of Empathic Leadership in Nowadays Societies

    The Importance of Empathic Leadership in Nowadays Societies

    At the Revolution Conference 2024 in Vilnius Estonian Bart Cosijn shared his vision on the importance of empathic leadership in relation to dialogue skills in nowadays societies. This is the text of his speech. Thank you very much for this opportunity. My name is Bart Cosijn, and I am the founder of the Estonian Dialogue…

  • Dialoogis õpime kuulama, väljendama ja häid küsimusi esitama

    Dialoogis õpime kuulama, väljendama ja häid küsimusi esitama

    Artikkel ilmus esmakordselt väljaandes Pärnu Postimees. Piret Jeedas, koolitaja, dialoogipraktik ja andragoogika külalislektor Tallinna Ülikoolis. Piret Jeedas viis koos Bart Cosijniga läbi oktoobris 2024 Rara meediahariduse konverentsil töötoa “Dialoogi võimalused klassiruumis: kuidas rääkida inimesega, kellega sa ei ole samal arvamusel?“ Iga inimese jaoks on oluline oma mõtteid väljendada turvalises ja usalduslikus keskkonnas, olla kuulatud ja mõistetud.…

  • Seven tips for how to make your conversation more interactive

    Seven tips for how to make your conversation more interactive

    This blog was first published on the Arvamusfestival website Every year in August, around 10,000 people come to Paide in Estonia to take part in close to 170 public discussions on almost every topic imaginable. That makes 1.5 million changes – opportunities to give someone the feeling that this one discussion alone was worth the…

  • It is time for a more empathic leadership in Estonia

    It is time for a more empathic leadership in Estonia

    Opinion in Estonian World online media outlet Estonia needs a new form leadership, based on empathy and discussion skills, and people who can work together and reshape their ideas and beliefs, based on open dialogue with the people around them, Bart Cosijn, a discussion moderator and a participation expert, writes. This is the English version…